When I was growing up I was distressingly aware of a whole alternate apparatus of culture built by evangelical Christians. In 2025 I am distressingly aware of a whole alternate apparatus of culture built by ppl who thought EPISODES was a laugh riot

isaac chotiner’s interview with bret easton ellis about his little book of nonfiction essays is still one of the funniest and most brutal things ever put in print

Cat Internally Debates Whether Or Not To Rip Head Off Smaller Creature It Just Met https://theonion.com/cat-internally-debates-whether-or-not-to-rip-head-off-s-1819579289/

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

I cannot tell, can only hint, the things that darted through me then.

I'm in here talking about groypers and their ties to the Trump administration.

We have been denied a season-length SVU episode about heroic FBI catfishers, in observance of this very difficult time for the neo-nazi community

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Trump that his desire to do eugenics is sincere

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

cackling

lmfao

theres nothing important to learn from hayek

I dislike it!!!

Whom among us has not crushed on a mean brunette?

Haha I'm being Raptured! This is wonderful, ha ha goodbye losers [It is revealed that the events of the film Nope are happening to me] fuck shit

Please stop comparing Trump to Lucy with the football. Lucy is cool and was a very important figure to me developmentally as a child.

Lucy, when you're done messing around, there's a football to be kicked.

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is exactly right and precisely why he wanted to do this in DC where said elections will be certified

Apropos of nothing I can already sense the increasingly sweaty A24 girlies gearing up to try and rehab EDDINGTON by getting mad and putting it up re: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. But I’m going to tell you busters once: yr boy does not have the juice to go up against PTA. He does not have that sand

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@raxkingisdead.bsky.social yooo do u know if yr Booklyn Fest panel was recorded? I meant to attend but was waylaid

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper.

Feeding my wife Tylenol so my son can follow in my footsteps as a pointillist micro-edit “sound design” musician with several albums on the Planet Mu label

this has immediately become the top sticker on the pirates discord. i don't think it will ever get knocked off the top step.

Y’all policing dumb jokes like this is why people hate us as humorless scolds. thank you for your attention to this matter!

*pounding on lunch table* grue jay grue Jay Grue Jay GRUE JAY *worn-out old man who made it through Zork, resigned* not again

You know, it’s wild that Disney can’t tell Sinclair to kick rocks and just take all of their programming from them. Everything Sinclair does depends on getting programming from Disney and everyone in the world knows where to get the stuff they want

“Abundant Intelligence” ah yes the ezra klein of acquiring venture capital

The use of salience in gathering momentum for a cause is a relay race. You have to push the next leg even if the previous one stumbles. You refuse to entertain notions that continued fascist exercise drains you or is evidence of their victory. The salience of every new crisis pushes us forward

It fucking sucks that less visible journalists and public workers are being punished for the same things that Kimmel gets rallied support over. But getting those (effectively) past travesties out to the scale of response that Kimmel received takes more than we have, when new horrors pile on daily.

I think the Kimmel thing is a glimmer of something like that — a popular refusal to concede the legitimacy of official fascist talking points should be encouraging. We need that to continue as the scale of disobedience, and the visibility of that disobedience, grows toward what’s necessary

For example we do have voices — even local officials — who can tell you that disobedience to ICE is worth pursuing, who are willing to be continually arrested. One question; can we create a bloc which, like the civil rights movement, broadly refuses to condemn alternate tactics within the movement?

The dilemma is that the Kimmell situation specifically did not require leadership only because it was so loud and blatant, so simple to react to, and in some sense national-scale in who could be seen as having a role to play. You won’t get some or any of that with other projects

This is something Ezra Klein is centrist-ly reacting to when he ignores and dismisses abortion rights’ jarring success in direct democracy. You can believe in people’s ability to show up. You can believe in those people mattering outside a voting booth

The Democrats are fully nowhere, doing fully nothing, sapped of all purpose and eschewing all leadership. And yet this counter-reaction happens in their absence! Action without neoliberal manager-representative sanction is possible. How far can that be taken?

On this day in Horror/Thriller History, DAVID CRONENBERG's DEAD RINGERS was released in 1988.

All of this is to say, you could choose to dismiss the Hulu cancellations as a pitiful display of American decadence and sub-false consciousness, showing reactionary pessimism / contempt toward people who *think* they believe in things but don’t. Or you could read it as a (thready) sign of life!

Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

This is true but there’s also the exceptional salience / simplicity of “one very famous guy trespassed upon tentatively-but-publicly in one spectacular act by clearly visible parties” which is difficult to replicate in our current media environment.

Ppl have been going on about the HHS claim as affective misogyny re: necessary pain (personally I’ve seen sadistic teleology-of-birth as a pan-political project), but this seems the more straightforward goal: smashing consensus to open up new markets in health scams. Ivermectin was the test

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

I have a theory that the psychology of rich people who commit CSA is qualitatively different from most abusers but good luck ever funding research into this 🧵

Cocaine prices low, DeLorean for sale, people watching megachurch tv... Damn, Is it the 80's again??

Again we’re trapped in a pocket For The Man Who Has Everything universe cause Petrov stopped nuclear annihilation in 1983 and now everything keeps trying to make it 1983 again to create the conditions to blow ourselves up

Big news acetaminophen is safe to use

NVIDIA claims to hold the entire US economy up, but it can’t “hold up” ELDEN RING ray tracing capability. Oh, sure.

Teleology: not even once